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Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the cosmic country rockersâ 1969 debut, a strange, short-lived truce in the long battle between hippies and squares.
One of the first times Gram Parsons played an open-mic night at the Palomino, a dive in North Hollywood that, in the late 1960s, was patronized mostly by hippie-hating country-music fans, a bar regular approached him right after his performance. âI want you to meet my three brothers,â the man said to Parsons, who was wearing his favorite pair of satin bell-bottoms and whose chestnut hair was longer than pretty much anyone elseâs in the place. âWe were gonna kick your ass,â the man continued, âbut you can sing real good, so weâll buy you a beer instead.â
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It’s a wonder anything from personal artistic endeavors to filing one’s taxes gets accomplished outside of being in the band
Joan of Arc, the Chicagoan experimental family tree that ended its tenure this past December. The outfit has always doubled as a lifestyle in addition to occupation, requiring not just writing, recording, and touring, but living together (varying on the era) and spending countless nights out at Rainbo Club too. So who has time for side projects? In
Bobby Burg’s case, his “side project”
Love of Everything was once the main project, later becoming a fulcrum of sorts for stepping into his eventual bandmate-described role as co-captain of Joan of Arc. Burg’s own material slowed comparatively from that point onward, and the LPs he did release in that span were sprinkled with accompaniment from his new cohorts. Now, roughly a decade after the